Aperture to Capture One Pro via Catpult - working
FYI I figured out how to make the Aperture to Capture One Pro connection work with the Catapult plugin in both directions, preserving repeated image edits in Capture One Pro. We can now use Capture One Pro as a (slightly awkward) plugin for Aperture, many people like their RAW conversion.
I think more could be done to make it simpler, but it is working.
My write up is on the Capture One Forum, here:
http://forum.phaseone.com/En/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=16675&sid=46e9c25c5f1d3770cc66 be99bda3441d
Hi,
Aperture is a versatile application, which lets you perform all or at least the most tasks to handle your digital camera image files. It helps a lot to edit files, which means you can select winners and losers very quickly and in a very sophisticated way. It renames files and adds IPTC meta data.
One thing is really cool: It imports your master RAW files und does not touch them any more. When you alter an image (cropping, brightness, white balance etc) this is only written in a data base and Aperture shows you the altered master file in a new preview called Version. This version does not exist physically. It is only a little descriptive text file. When you export your image for delivery Aperture creates real images.
It is possible to automate workflows with Apples´s Automator. Aperture organizes files in a single library but you can export master raw files or tif, psd or jpg copies. Aperture creates niece Websites, and offers book templates for PDF-output or printing via a print service. There is many more. But one thing I should point out: the raw conversion of Capture One Pro is in my opinion much better. More details, better color control. This will get better, I hope with future version of Aperture. We got a version 1.1 now and the developers of Aperture seem to know about our problems. So for me, Aperture is a very cool Workflow tool. RAW conversion is not state of the Art but equal to ACR. And having master file and derivatives alltogether without cluttering the harddisk is very clever. But I will keep my version of Capture One Pro for quality reasons.
I hope this helps a bit.
(Sorry for weak my english)
Regards,
Eberhard
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First, when I import files from a card, they don't
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this correct.
The RAW files are all still there - the Aperture Library.aplibrary is in fact a directory, but a special kind called a "package". If you right click on it in finder you can say "see package contents". Inside there are projects, which are also packages - you open those in the same way and inside there are import directories that house all your RAW files.
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import the files again so I can use them in Capture
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thanks for the response, hopefully they fix that stat.
what's that lightroom? you wanna play? ok.
I agree that they need to add Phase One support, no question. They've got Leaf and Hasselblad. It's a huge oversight for them not to have Phase One.
That said, if this was a "big proshoot" as you say and the photographer gave you all of his raws why are you bouncing around between programs? You are not a digital tech or you'd already know what was up. If you're thinking that you can hit the ground running, fresh from an assignment, with no experience in any of these programs (Aperture, Lightroom, ACR, Capture One, etc.) then you've got a learning curve ahead of you.
It would probably be much more efficient for you to have the photographer process the raws for you (I don't know of any pro's who would hand off their raw files - it's just assuming too much on the client's end) or outsourcing to a digital tech who's knows how to work the files.
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http://www.jonroemer.com/ -
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The artifacts I’m referring to are regularly-spaced train track-looking things in certain sections of the sandstone. The issue can be seen on 100% crops taken from the left side, about 1/3 of the way down from the top. Here is the area as it appears in Aperture using View > Zoom to actual size:
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For comparison I opened the same RAW file in Capture One. The artifacts are barely discernable! :
And here are the Capture One settings I used:
And here is the Capture One conversion as it appears in Photoshop, viewed at 100%. Again, the artifacts are essentially absent:
The image dimensions are almost exactly (but not quite) the same as the image that Aperture converted.
And, although it’s not part of my usual workflow, I converted the image using Adobe Camera Raw. The results show that, like Capture One, ACR doesn’t exhibit these artifacts (although it does show a bit more chromatic aberration):
Just to be clear, these artifacts ARE visible in my 16 x 24” print.
It’s a bit discouraging that, on my first serious attempt at using Aperture, I discovered these artifacts. It may be that this is a rare event with Aperture – or maybe not.
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-- Jim
G5 Dual 2.5 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)Here is another example of this effect, but with a different type of subject matter: a ball. The original is a raw file from a Canon 350D/Digital Rebel.
In Aperture's Zoom mode there is a pattern on the ball that looks like Maze Craze:
The pattern is maintained to a lesser degree as the image is sized down:
Exported as Original Size png:
Exported as Half Size png:
Now, as pointed out in the earlier post, the real problem is that other apps do not have this problem. The following is from ACR:
Aside from the pattern, Aperture does look better, but the pattern is nasty and almost makes the image unusable.
Will
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If you want dig into enormous detail around color differences between LR, Aperture and C1, go here:
http://chromasoft.blogspot.com/2008/01/lightroom-aperture-and-capture-one-mini_24.html
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I am a commercial/editorial photographer and am considering expanding my digital workflow to include tethered shooting to a Macbook Pro with my Nikon D700.
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Best,
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